The United States India nuclear agreement, announced in 2005, was a first step
in the process to normalise India’s international nuclear relations despite the fact
that India is not a party to the Treaty on the ...

After seven decades of episodic existence through conferences, the Pan-African project became permanently institutionalised with the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, with a qualitative upgrade into ...

Bytheway, Andrew J.(Dept of Information Systems, Univ. of the Western Cape, 2000)

In order to successfully deploy information technology and information systems, any organisation must have a strategy indicating where its business is going, an understanding of the information systems that will help to ...

The administration of elections in South Africa, including the 2011 local government elections(hereafter the 2011 elections), has widely been hailed as a resounding success. Yet competitive elections, an essential component ...

Astronaissance neatly conceptualizes the crossover between the African Renaissance, the re-emergence of Astronomy in Africa, and the rise of cognate space sciences and astronautics.
Story-telling, painting, engraving, ...

Tilley, Susan; Nkazane, Ntombizabantu(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report outlines the community’s attempts to develop
and use the land that has been restored to it in terms of the
Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 (‘Restitution Act’).
It examines the nature and content ...

BACKGROUND: Knowledge loss causes challenges for organisations that wish to remain competitive. These organisations must identify the risks that could lead to knowledge loss and become aware of issues that affect knowledge ...

Tilley, Susan; Lahiff, Edward(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report focuses on the restitution case of the
Bjatladi Communal Property Association (CPA) and the
development and use of the land that has been restored
to it in terms of the restitution programme. It examines ...

This paper reviews the types of business models, or landuse
models, being implemented in land reform projects
involving the transfer of rural land to communities and
other groups in South Africa, under both the restitution ...

There is an urgent need to reform the educational system to achieve universal primary education in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Even after 35 years of independence, PNG has been struggling to educate an estimated 2 million ...

The privileged position of white commercial farmers in South Africa came to an end by the early 1990s,
when political and policy changes removed the certainty provided by controlled marketing, protective
tariffs and ...

Despite many achievements regarding child rights over the last 20 years, including improvements in many indicators such as the significant reduction in infant and child mortality; the more positive way of thinking about ...

South Africa needs to both increase its electricity generation, and to incrementally transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The most cost-effective strategy would be a mix of imported hydropower, solar power, ...

This Policy Brief is based on synthetic
studies undertaken by participants in
the Cross Sectoral Commons Governance
in Southern Africa (CROSCOG)
project between 2007 and 2009,
funded by the European Commission
(European ...

This bibliography is aimed at collating information relating to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the Southern African region across different sectors and themes. It was primarily compiled to offer ...

Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially ...

Greenberg, Stephen(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

This report widens the debate about
food production and distribution in South Africa
to consider some of the entrenched power dynamics that shape the way these happen, and to
consider whether a more radical transformation ...

In party organisational terms, the rise of Jacob Zuma to the Presidency of the African National
Congress (ANC) is a victory for the alliance partners and the struggle-era vision of the ANC as a
popular front, or the ‘ANC ...

This brief examines some emerging
trends and dynamics in changing
power relations in rural Namibian
communities due to emerging new
elites and the threats to subsistence
farmers’ access to communal land
and ...

Ramakrishna, Gollagari; Rena, Ravinder(Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2013)

In this paper an attempt is made to present the energy scenario of India in terms of energy consumption, energy security and energy efficiency. Growth trends and the changes in growth trends of these variables have been ...